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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Learning art and graphic design

For a long time, I've worked on technical solutions/consulting for many projects in my life. This job is great and interesting. However, one day I found that: I became too "logic" strictly. In my mindset, there are only 2 guys for 2 different views: tech and business.

To be more flexible and creative, I think I need characters of an "artist". Actually, I don't know what would be happened in a kind of combination "Technology, Business and Art". However, I think it's very interesting and may make some evolutions in my future way.

So, what is exactly the kind of "artist" that I want to be? Actually, I stick my "art" need into software domain, not too general as other artist guys, eg: "photographer or painter". I try to define criteria of this guy as below:

1. He needs to know evaluating how beauty a (web) design/artwork is.
2. He needs to know how to create beautiful-AND-creative designs/artworks.
3. He needs to have deep knowledge about User Experience (UX) and how to make a design in best UX.
4. He needs to know how to research common habit/characters of the "crowd" to give the the best creative artwork (certainly in software domain :)).

I think these criteria are best match for the web designer job.

I don't know where to start from the beginning. I did asking my friends working as web designer and surfing on Internet to find my answers. Everyone has his own way to learn Kungfu, right?